Southey gives himself free scope as a verbarian.
Fitzed. Hall.
Ver*ba"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. L. verbum word.] A game in word making.
See Logomachy, 2.
||Ver*ba"tim (?), adv. [LL., fr. L. verbum word.] Word for word; in the
||same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has
||related it.
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Verbatim et literatim [LL.], word for word, and letter for letter.
Ver*be"na (?), n. [L. See Vervain.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants
of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great
beauty of their flowers; vervain.
Verbena, or vervain, was used by the Greeks, the Romans, and the
Druids, in their sacred rites. Brewer.
Essence of verbena, Oil of verbena, a perfume prepared from the lemon
verbena; also, a similar perfume properly called grass oil. See Grass
oil, under Grass. — Lemon, or Sweet, verbena, a shrubby verbenaceous
plant (Lippia citriodora), with narrow leaves which exhale a pleasant,
lemonlike fragrance when crushed.
Ver`be*na"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a natural order
(Verbenaceæ) of gamopetalous plants of which Verbena is the type. The
order includes also the black and white mangroves, and many plants
noted for medicinal use or for beauty of bloom.
Ver"be*nate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Verbenated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Verbenating.] [L. verbenatus crowned with a wreath of sacred boughs.
See Verbena.] To strew with verbena, or vervain, as in ancient
sacrifices and rites.
Ver"ber*ate (?), v. t. [L. verberatus, p. p. of verberare to beat, from
verber a lash, a whip.] To beat; to strike. [Obs.] "The sound . . .
rebounds again and verberates the skies." Mir. for Mag.
Ver`ber*a"tion (?), n. [L. verberatio: cf. F. verbération.] 1. The act
of verberating; a beating or striking. Arbuthnot.